Granola

6 cups rolled oats
1 cup toasted wheat germ
1 cup grape-nuts cereal
1/2 cup flax meal
2/3 cup dry soy milk (or dry milk)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup brown sugar (or natural cane sugar)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup honey
1 cup raisins (optional)
1/2 cup toasted shredded coconut (optional)

Preheat the oven to 350º.
Combine first six ingredients in a large bowl, set aside.
Combine sugar, oil, and honey in a saucepan. While stirring, cook over medium heat until sugar is dissolved and it begins boiling. Allow to boil for about one minute.
Remove from heat and stir the dry ingredients while you drizzle sugar and oil mixture over the top to coat it.
Mix it together well and pour mixture into a 9' x 13' buttered casserole dish.
Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Stir the mixture every five minutes or so during the cooking process.
Remove from oven and mix in the raisins and the coconut.
Allow to cool in the pan, stirring every ten minutes so that it doesn't clump together.
Store in an airtight container.